How the finance workforce is changing, according to LinkedIn

More diverse, but less international - and with regulatory and tech experts in high demand. Welcome to finance in the social-media era

The European HQ of the LinkedIn Corporation in Dublin, Ireland. Brexit - which has led to many finance firms expanding in the Irish capital - may be one reason UK finance is hiring less from abroad
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Becky Pritchard

September 14, 2018 Updated: 1:56 p.m. GMT

In the decade since the financial crisis, banks and asset managers have had to contend with falling profits, rising costs, complex new regulations, Brexit and rapid technological progress. All have affected the types of workers that finance companies are looking to hire.

Social network LinkedIn has analysed the profiles of its 25 million members in the UK, and surveyed 600 HR managers, to build up a picture of exactly how the financial services workforce is changing.